See Plan Z Diet: The Eyes Have It
By: Zola
Chief Dieter
Plan Z Diet
I found out a little while ago that I had to get a new driver’s license. I moved years ago from Wisconsin to Chicago and because my license had not expired yet I never applied for an Illinois one. I thought I could get away with not doing that until it was about to expire. What difference does it make what state I live in? I can drive in all 50 states.
Well, it matters to my insurance company. I was informed that if I didn’t renew my driver’s license that they would not renew my car insurance. Seems kind of un-related doesn’t it? The insurance company doesn’t stand to make any money off of my new license. Only the State of Illinois will benefit from the revenue.
The State of Illinois (like all other states)needs revenue and it needs it badly, so I guess I have to accept that I needed to make another contribution, but the more I thought about it, seemed to me like there was some cross-lobbying going on somewhere in order for an insurance renewal to trigger that sort of event. Figures.
So I drive out to the state office building where you renew your license. I have all of my ID ready. They want a LOT. They want my social security card, my passport (since I have one), two bills with my address on them, my car registration and more. When my number came up I handed all of that to the registration person.
She reviewed everything and informed me that I’d have to take an eye test and a written test. More fees of course. Collect more fees.
So I’m in the middle of the eye test and she has me read 4 sets of 4 letters going left to right. She asked me to read line 5. I looked down through the lens and read 3 sets of 4 letters. I stopped. She asked about the other 4 letters. I said the box was blank. She told me it was not blank. Try again, only this time read line 4. I did the same thing. I read 12 characters and stopped. The last box was empty. Once again she informed me that it was not empty and that the machine had no history of malfunctioning so would I please try again.
This really freaked me out. I had been working for over 10 months with the optometric clinic I go to in an effort to get new contact lenses. We had a dickens of a time. I could not seem to get them to fit me correctly with lenses. I finally got some they declared to be as good as they can do, and they declared them to fit perfectly and my vision was right on course. I had just gotten those new lenses in the last 30 days so I was confident they were perfect for me.
Now I can’t read the whole right side of the exam.
I quickly screwed up my eyes the best I could to focus just on the last box with the 4 mystery letters in it. I think I actually moved over to the right a bit so my other eye picked up the image; sort of. I managed, somehow, to sort of make them out and then proceeded to kinda guess what those letters were.
She passed me.
I was now sweating. Are my contacts ill-fitting? Or worse. Do I have some kind of macular degeneration? Do I have a brain tumor and something is blocking part of my vision? I don’t have headaches but maybe something is going on.
I have completely lost confidence in that optometric clinic. Now I’m pulling out the big guns. I’m going to an ophthalmologist tomorrow. I need heavy consultation. My job depends on my sight. I’m the main driver in our family. I’m aesthetically oriented and need to be able to see.
That lady was nice to me. She could have failed me in my driver’s eye exam. I am taking this as a big hint and going to see the top pro. ASAP.
Cheers,
I found out a little while ago that I had to get a new driver’s license. I moved years ago from Wisconsin to Chicago and because my license had not expired yet I never applied for an Illinois one. I thought I could get away with not doing that until it was about to expire. What difference does it make what state I live in? I can drive in all 50 states.
Well, it matters to my insurance company. I was informed that if I didn’t renew my driver’s license that they would not renew my car insurance. Seems kind of un-related doesn’t it? The insurance company doesn’t stand to make any money off of my new license. Only the State of Illinois will benefit from the revenue.
The State of Illinois (like all other states)needs revenue and it needs it badly, so I guess I have to accept that I needed to make another contribution, but the more I thought about it, seemed to me like there was some cross-lobbying going on somewhere in order for an insurance renewal to trigger that sort of event. Figures.
So I drive out to the state office building where you renew your license. I have all of my ID ready. They want a LOT. They want my social security card, my passport (since I have one), two bills with my address on them, my car registration and more. When my number came up I handed all of that to the registration person.
She reviewed everything and informed me that I’d have to take an eye test and a written test. More fees of course. Collect more fees.
So I’m in the middle of the eye test and she has me read 4 sets of 4 letters going left to right. She asked me to read line 5. I looked down through the lens and read 3 sets of 4 letters. I stopped. She asked about the other 4 letters. I said the box was blank. She told me it was not blank. Try again, only this time read line 4. I did the same thing. I read 12 characters and stopped. The last box was empty. Once again she informed me that it was not empty and that the machine had no history of malfunctioning so would I please try again.
This really freaked me out. I had been working for over 10 months with the optometric clinic I go to in an effort to get new contact lenses. We had a dickens of a time. I could not seem to get them to fit me correctly with lenses. I finally got some they declared to be as good as they can do, and they declared them to fit perfectly and my vision was right on course. I had just gotten those new lenses in the last 30 days so I was confident they were perfect for me.
Now I can’t read the whole right side of the exam.
I quickly screwed up my eyes the best I could to focus just on the last box with the 4 mystery letters in it. I think I actually moved over to the right a bit so my other eye picked up the image; sort of. I managed, somehow, to sort of make them out and then proceeded to kinda guess what those letters were.
She passed me.
I was now sweating. Are my contacts ill-fitting? Or worse. Do I have some kind of macular degeneration? Do I have a brain tumor and something is blocking part of my vision? I don’t have headaches but maybe something is going on.
I have completely lost confidence in that optometric clinic. Now I’m pulling out the big guns. I’m going to an ophthalmologist tomorrow. I need heavy consultation. My job depends on my sight. I’m the main driver in our family. I’m aesthetically oriented and need to be able to see.
That lady was nice to me. She could have failed me in my driver’s eye exam. I am taking this as a big hint and going to see the top pro. ASAP.
Cheers,
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